For an example of just how heartless and profit-obsessed health insurers are, take a look at what is playing out in Connecticut, where Cigna is based. Low income people with diabetes in Connecticut and other states are having a hard time paying for the insulin that they must have to stay alive–even though they have …
#1 – Talk to yourself. There are times you need expert advice. #2 – “In Style” are the clothes that still fit. #3 – You don’t need anger management. You need people to stop pissing you off. #4 – Your people skills …
Iceland has long enjoyed a reputation as a paragon of sexual equality. For the past 11 years, it has led the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index, and its women benefit from high levels of education and equality in the workplace. But this masks some “insidious problems in Icelandic society”, say Sigrún Sif Jóelsdóttir and …
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Not long ago we fondly believed that one thing all nations would have in common was access to the same digital technology, that is (mainly) the internet. We were wrong. Ever since Beijing began building its Great Firewall in 1996, its censored version of the web has diverged from the one used by the rest …
Schools with huge endowments are pretending remote learning is the same experience as learning together with your fellow students. Excuse me? Harvard is one of the colleges who will offer the bulk of their courses online. But they refuse to reduce the cost of tuition. Colleges and universities are in a bind. Coronavirus continues to rage …
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